I have been using FSX on Windows 7 and 10 since it was released in 2006(?). It was a great sim for what I used it for. Flying a Continental 757 out of KEWR. I had the game "tweaked" the way I wanted. Everything was great and enjoyable.

However, I dumped Windows 7/10 and switched to using Linux Mint last month (and loving it!).

I currently have 2 systems running Linux Mint 22.3.

Here are the system specs...

System 1 (2013).

Motherboard: ASUS M4A87T AM3 AMD 870
CPU: AMD AthlonII X3 Triple-Core 3.3GHz
PSU: Enermax 500W
Memory: Kingston 8GB (2x 4GB) Value Ram DDR3 1333MHz
Video Card: ASUS ENGT430/DI/1GD3(LP) 1GB DDR3 1600MHz

System 2 (2020).

Motherboard: ASUS Prime H310M-E R2.0 Intel H310 Chipset, LGA 1151, HDMI
CPU: INTEL CORE i3-8350K 4-Core 4.0 GHz, LGA 1151, 91W TPD
PSU: EVGA 600 BQ, 80 PLUS Bronze 600W, Semi Modular, ATX
Memory: KINGSTON 16GB DDR4 2400Mhz, CL17 DIMM
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GT 1030, 1189 - 1430MHz, 2GB SDDR4

I am think of downloading and trying X-Plane 10. Are these systems OK for running it? (I might have to turn the game settings down to low..)

Thanks for your help. I will have more questions after I try to install it.

Scott

P.S.

I tried to run the "demo" versions of XP 11 and 12. They installed but when I tried to run them, they just froze the computer and I had to re-boot. This is why I want to see if 10 will run on my system specs.

3-core cpu. This is an interesting case study for how good the die fab processes have evolved to, given that we don't see odd number core counts anymore.

I would think 11 would run on system 2. Possibly 12. How much swap did you set up? They might have been getting killed for lack of virtual memory space. If so, increasing swap size would probably resolve it. I'd guess that you'll also want to set up zswap for both of those systems. And yes, low settings.

System 1 certainly wants 10.

Side note: FSX does run in WINE. Mostly.

I checked the swap file on system 2 and it is 2Gb. Perhaps I should increase it to 4?

Scott

Edited April 22Apr 22 by vomacka

Windows defaults to many gigabytes for its pagefile and it can dynamically resize. This trips up many linux users because it's not a visible option in windows. If you want to be safe, start with 16gb.

If it can still be purchased, X-Plane 10 is an okay-ish choice for system 2. Don't worry about 11 and 12, as they won't be fun on that hardware at all. Just note that anything older than XP12 is end of life and won't receive official support.

 

21 hours ago, blingthinger said:

Side note: FSX does run in WINE. Mostly.

A few years ago, menu rendering was completely broken in WINE. Is that still so?

56 minutes ago, Bjoern said:

menu rendering was completely broken in WINE. Is that still so

Yep. I was actually trying this just a few days ago with the latest GE Proton release. Also can't install the service or Acceleration packs (english version required blah blah). The general web search fixes didn't fix.

21 hours ago, vomacka said:

Perhaps I should increase it to 4

And don't forget to turn on zswap. Probably at 30-50%. It's a swap space compression method that's very very light weight. You'll most likely benefit from using it on these systems.

Thanks guys for the help/advice. I really appreciate it!

I just tried the XP10 demo and it worked great on system 2. Smooth and no pauses or stuttering. Unfortunately they don't give enough time to really test out the features, but it was enough for me to purchase the global edition today.

I know that XP10 may be out of date, but it seems to work on system 2 OK. Maybe I will try to get the demo to run on system 1(?).

Scott